SAWA-Australia (SA)
P.O. Box 90
Flinders University Post Office
BEDFORD PARK SA 5042

Secretaries: Libby Drew, Olga Enigk

email: adelaide[AT SIGN]sawa-australia[DOT]org

Contact SAWA if you want to become involved in this local group.
If you want to speak to a SAWA contact send us an email with your phone number and we will call you.

Malalai Joya's book launch July 2009:

Talk and book signing at Stirling Library, Stirling
(through Matilda Bookshop)
Tuesday 7 July 6 for 6.30 pm.

Talk and book signing at Goodwood Community Centre, Goodwood
(through Angus & Robertson Unley).

RAWA speaking tour May/June 2009:

Education after the Taliban: successes and failures in war torn Afghanistan
Thursday 28 May, 12 noon, Flinders University Hall - the Abbey. Bring your own lunch, tea and coffee provided.

Women in Afghanistan: Fighting fundamentalism and building their own future
co-presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre of the University of South Australia
Thursday 28 May 7 pm, Hawke Building - Level 5, City West Campus, 50-60 North Terrace.

Farewell party for Shazia
Thursday 18 June, 6 pm Eastwood Community Centre, 95 Glen Osmond Road Eastwood. Good food and music.

 
Film night fundraiser: My Tehran for Sale, a movie by Granaz Moussavi, one of Iran's most celebrated contemporary female poets. Meet Granaz Moussavi for questions and answers after the movie. Monday 23 November 6.45 pm, Trak Cinemas, 375 Greenhill Road Toorak Gardens.

Afghan afternoon in support of SAWA, Wednesday 4 November 11 am - 2 pm, University of South Australia Magill Campus, outside campus central. Afghan music, Middle Eastern food, handicrafts and SAWA products for sale, information table, meet SAWA members; organized by the Sohbet Society for Human Rights.

First Adelaide Picnic, Sunday 27 September from 12pm, Bonython Park, Totem Pole (behind Old Adelaide Goal). Come along and bring some food, drink, chair or blanket. In case of wet weather Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton.

SAWA at the International Day of Peace Fair, Sunday 20 September 1-5pm, Estonian Hall, 200 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide with a table with handicraft, calendars, greeting cards etc.

WILPF fundraising event for SAWA, Saturday 12 September 2pm, Hutt Street Library (235 Hutt Street). WILPF will show the documentary "Widows of Kabul 2008 " to WILPF members and anyone else who would like to come along.

Around the World in 60 minutes, a fundraising concert. Sunday 5 July 2009 2.30 pm, St. Ignatius Church Hall, William Street Norwood.
Irish, Scottish, Spanish, Russian, Afghan, Klezmer and Australian ...
All proceeds to the Vocational Training Centre in Kabul.

"Mad May Day" Chinese banquet of Soroptimist International of Torrens Monday 4 May 2009
7 pm for 7.30 pm start, Ming's Palace, 157- 159 Gouger Street.
Proceeds go to the Vocational Training Centre supported by SAWA, to the Riverland Domestic Violence Unit and to the Hajare school in Nepal.

Urgent SAWA Appeal: Support Afghan Widows. Friday 3 April 2009 6.30 - 9.30 pm, Australian Education Union Main Hall, 163 Greenhill Road, Parkside SA 5063; supported by Australian Education Union (SA) and WILPF.

• Brief overview of SAWA's work
• Kabul 2008 - a documentary of the recent visit of SAWA convenor Matthias Tomczak to Kabul, followed by open discussion with Matthias
• The Three of Us - Adelaide band
• Bahar - traditional Afhgan music

"A varied musical afternoon", an event of Soroptimist International of the South Pacific celebrating its 30th birthday; Sunday 25 May 2008 2 pm, Unley Uniting Church (Unley Road corner of Edmund Avenue). Proceeds to SAWA.

Screening of "A View From a Grain of Sand" Sunday 30 March 2008 1 pm, in the Adelaide Unitarian Church meeting hall, 99 Osmond Terrace Norwood.